PHP Tutorial

  Introduction Up until recently, scripting on the internet was something which very few people even attempted, let alone mastered. Recently though, more and more people have been building their own websites and scripting languages have become more important. Because of this, scripting languages are becomming easier to learn and PHP is one of the easiest and most powerful yet. What Is PHP? PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and...

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A PHP Times Table Programme

In the previous part, you saw what a For Loop was. In this section, we'll write a times table programme to illustrate how for loops work. There's a script called timesTable.php amongst the files you downloaded (in the scripts folder). When loaded into the browser, it looks like this: There's a script called timesTable.php amongst the files you downloaded (in the scripts folder.). When loaded into the browser, ...

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Some Practise with PHP If Statements

We can use an if statement to display our image, from the previous section. If the user selected "church", then display the church image. If the user selected "kitten", then display another image (the kitten image, which is also in your images folder). Here's some code: <?PHP $kitten_image = 1; $church_image = 0; if ($kitten_image == 1) { print ("<IMG SRC =images/kitten.jpg>"); } ?> Type that out, and save it as...

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What you need to get started with PHP

Before you can write and test your PHP scripts, there's one thing you'll need - a server! Fortunately, you don't need to go out and buy one. In fact, you won't be spending any extra money. That's why PHP is so popular! But because PHP is a server-sided scripting language, you either have to get some web space with a hosting company that supports PHP, or make your computer pretend that it has a server installed. This is because PHP...

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What is PHP?

PHP is probably the most popular scripting language on the web. It is used to enhance web pages. With PHP, you can do things like create username and password login pages, check details from a form, create forums, picture galleries, surveys, and a whole lot more. If you've come across a web page that ends in PHP, then the author has written some programming code to liven up the plain, old HTML. PHP is known as a server-sided language. That's because the PHP doesn't get executed on your computer, but on the computer you requested...

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JavaScript: Password Validation using regular expressions and HTML5

. Guidelines for Secure Password Input Use the "password" input type Instead of <input type="text"> you should always use <input type="password"> as this lets the browser (and the user) know that the contents of that field need to be secured. Your password won't appear on the screen as you type and most browsers also won't 'remember' the values entered in password fields as they do with other form elements. Confirm password...

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Passing variables to JavaScript usin php

        1. Escaping Quotes and Line Breaks Suppose you start with a PHP variable that needs to be displayed in a JavaScript alert or confirmation dialog: $message = "a short piece of text spanning more than one line and containing \"double\" & 'single' quotes"; The obvious way to turn this into an alert is: <script type="text/javascript"> alert("<?PHP echo $message ?>"); </script> but that...

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